Outgoing Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that he would like to see Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn become the next Prime Minister. Mr Adams, who is set to stand down as Sinn Féin President next weekend, praised Mr Corbyn’s approach to negotiations in the early stages of the peace process, stating: “He and (former London Mayor) Ken Livingstone and others kept faith and they were the people who said, when others said no, talk.”

Sinn Féin MLA and party spokesperson on policing, Gerry Kelly was reported to the PSNI after he was filmed on CCTV using a bolt cutter to cut off a car clamp in a Belfast car park. A party spokesperson confirmed the incident, and stated that Mr Kelly’s solicitor is dealing with the matter.

Home Secretary, Amber Rudd attempted to quash threats by pro-Brexit Conservative MPs over attacks on the civil service and claims of cabinet disunity. Reports in the Sunday Times suggested that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Environment Secretary Michael Gove and backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg could form a Brexit “dream team” to stop Prime Minister’ Theresa May’s alleged plan to keep the UK in a customs union with the EU. Ms Rudd the Andrew Marr Show: “I have a surprise for the Brexiteers, which is the [cabinet] committee that meets in order to help make these decisions is more united than they think.”

Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, said that Jeremy Corbyn is “crucial” to his hopes of forcing a second referendum on Brexit. Mr Cable accused Mr Corbyn of “collusion” with the Conservative government to enable Brexit to happen. Despite his claims that there is a “simmering anger” within the Labour Party about Mr Corbyn’s stance, Mr Corbyn stated that Labour is “not supporting” another referendum.

China urged the United States to drop its “Cold War mentality” and not misread its military build-up, after Washington published a document outlining plans to expand its nuclear capabilities to deter others. As reported by Reuters, the US military has put countering China and Russia, dubbed “revisionist powers”, at the centre of a new national defence strategy. China has called on the US to work together with China and for their armies to become a stabilising factor in Sino-U.S. relations and in the region.

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